ABSTRACT
This chapter develops a libidinal energy layered by sexual difference flowing through bodies, art, and practices of production and consumption. Manifested culturally in art, economics, and politics, these unconscious forces reveal the complexity of the binaries identified by both Wollen and Reed. Deleuzes emphasis on the transformative impact of the symbol, his version of anima and especially his conception of the unconscious bear numerous affinities to Jungian analytical psychology. Kerslake describes Jung's concept of the problem as something that breaks through first as a problem for conscious representation, and then as a problem that points to something neglected in the very conceptual hierarchy itself. The three sciences of Western esotericism are alchemy, astrology, and magic, in the Renaissance sense of the science of numbers, but it also includes a number of other streams such as Kabbalah, Hermeticism, German Naturphilosophie, and Rosicrucianism. Negotiating identity involves a muddying of the strictly bisexual nature of the psyche proposed by Jung.
